Creating And Interpreting A Demographic Table DQ
Creating And Interpreting A Demographic Table DQ
By successfully completing this assessment you will address the following scoring guide criteria, which align to the indicated course competencies.
Competency 1: Describe underlying concepts and reasoning related to the collection and evaluation of quantitative data in health care research.
Write a summary narrative about statistical results.
Competency 2: Apply appropriate statistical methods using common software tools in the collection and evaluation of health care data.
Perform descriptive statistics for selected variables in a data set.
Create a demographic table populated with descriptive data for specific treatment groups.
Use appropriate statistics for a given data measurement level.
Competency 3: Interpret the results and practical significance of statistical health care data analyses.
Explain the clinical significance of a demographic table.
Competency 5: Address assignment purpose in a well-organized text, incorporating appropriate evidence and tone in grammatically sound sentences.
Articulate meaning relevant to the main topic, scope, and purpose of the prompt.
Apply APA formatting to in-text citations and references.
Part 1: Baseline Demographic Table
Use the Yoga Stress (PSS) Study Data Set [XLSX] for this assessment.
Follow the steps described in this assessment to use SPSS for performing a descriptive statistical analysis for the following selected variables from the Yoga and Stress Study data set: Age, Gender, Race, Military Status, Pre-intervention Psychological Stress Score.
Using How to Create a Demographic Table [PPTX], create a demographic table and populate the table with the results of descriptive analysis.
Use the type of descriptive statistics most appropriate for the particular kind of data measurement level of each variable being reported.
Include appropriate univariate statistics for the variables for each treatment group: Age, Gender, Ethnicity, Education, and current Military Status.
Use appropriate statistics for a given data measurement level.
Part 2: Interpretive Summary
Write a summary narrative about statistical results.
Prepare a properly formatted demographic table that includes appropriate univariate statistics for the variables for each treatment group.
Explain the practical significance of a demographic table.
Use the unit readings, media resources, and collaborative insights from the discussions for general guidance in reporting a demographic table.
Additional Requirements
Length: 2–3 typed, double-spaced pages of content plus title and reference pages.
Font: Times New Roman, 12 points.
APA Format: Your title and reference pages must conform to APA format and style guidelines. See the APA Module for more information. The body of your paper does not need to conform to APA guidelines. Do make sure that it is clear, persuasive, organized, and well written, without grammatical, punctuation, or spelling errors. You also must cite your sources according to APA guidelines.
You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.
Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.
Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.
The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.